Dean Ambrose (C) vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship!
With the dawn of SmackDown Live’s New Era comes fresh beginnings and big opportunities, and nowhere is that truer than in the case of Dolph Ziggler, who is set to challenge WWE World Champion Dean Ambrose at SummerSlam.
The Showoff qualified for the title match by winning a loaded No. 1 Contender’s Six-Pack Challenge on SmackDown Live July 26, overcoming an all-star field of John Cena, AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, Baron Corbin and Apollo Crews. Before notching the massive win, Ziggler said he had "lost his way," but vowed to not let opportunity slip through his hands again. On Sunday, Aug. 21, he will have his chance to back up his words.
A two-time World Champion in WWE — not to mention, the record-holder for most wins in the history of Kent State’s acclaimed wrestling program — Ziggler has emerged as one of the most resilient athletes in recent history.
Against WWE World Champion Ambrose, however, The Showoff faces a distinctly unorthodox brawler. Perpetual motion personified, Ambrose never backs down from a good fight, and the SummerSlam title bout against Ziggler is no different.
Will The Lunatic Fringe continue to reign supreme on SmackDown Live? Or will Ziggler’s revitalized outlook on life in WWE’s New Era prove to be unbeatable?
The Lunatic Fringe vs The Show Off at Summerslam!
I kind of like that matchup, they had to give Ziggler a momentum after the brand split, he is a guy that is in the all shows all year long, he is a full time guy and they need him to be an important guy on smackdown.
I am happy for Ambrose & Ziggler for having a WWE Championship match at big stage like Summerslam they deserve it! 2 of the workhorses of WWE!
I liked that Daniel Bryan raised their hands in the end, like D. Bryan both Ziggler and Ambrose was overlooked in their careers but now they can have high profile WRESTLING match at Summerslam.
This is Ziggler's Chance to get back to the top, he wants the mic so much to express his passion, i am sure he will get that chance.
Kevin Nash said lately that he ever will come back to WWE, he want to be Ziggler's bodyguard. Nash says that Ziggler just needs a "Diesel" to stomp his opponents, maybe a heel Ziggler W/ Kevin Nash will make Ziggler fresh again.
anyway, the WWE will make their best to make that match feel important and the two will be super driven to give a great match.
Agreed. A lot of people don't take Ziggler seriously, especially with how he's been booked. A heel turn could turn things around for him, but after this, they'll probably push him to the side again. Hope I'm wrong, but with how bipolar they can be with this guy, it wouldn't surprise me.
Either way, I hope that these two deliver a fun match here.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship (Summerslam)
Complete joke of a match designed to make SmackDown look bad. Horrible first impression. Ambrose wins, hopefully Backlash is better but I refuse to hold my breath after what I saw. They're trying to run this show into the ground.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship (Summerslam)
It'll be Dean. I don't even understand why they're having this match. It'll be good from a ring work perspective, but it's so pointless. They've fucked Dolph over for years and now they're sticking a rocket up his arse and expect anyone to actually believe he's going to be the top guy? It's just a way of shitting all over Smackdown and keeping it as the B show, by showcasing the best they supposedly have to offer and then crushing it.
With all that said, it'll still be a good match and it's nice to see Ziggler get such an "opportunity" even if he is just a pawn.
It'll be Dean. I don't even understand why they're having this match. It'll be good from a ring work perspective, but it's so pointless. They've fucked Dolph over for years and now they're sticking a rocket up his arse and expect anyone to actually believe he's going to be the top guy? It's just a way of shitting all over Smackdown and keeping it as the B show, by showcasing the best they supposedly have to offer and then crushing it.
With all that said, it'll still be a good match and it's nice to see Ziggler get such an "opportunity" even if he is just a pawn.
Ambrose will be champion going into Wrestlemania the key is to make Undertaker vs Ambrose for the first time ever on pay per view for the belt , so Undertaker can retire as a champion
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship (Summerslam)
LOL Ziggler was like the internet darling two years ago.
remember Daniel Bryan last Match on RAW? it was an IC Title match at Raw after WM 31 against Ziggler and the entire crowd stood up and gave them a standing ovation mid match.
Ziggler will not win, it wont be the ME of Summerslam(even Seth Cena last year wasn't the last match either) because the card will be full with big matches.
Orton-Brock, Finn-Rollins, AJ-Cena, Ambrose-Ziggler, Reigns-KO(?) etc.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship (Summerslam)
What is extremely over-looked is that Ziggler pinned fucking AJ Styles. Why Aj Styles. Why did he have to get pinned, he is one of the top guys that should be protected and is heading into probably the second most important match on the card against Cena and he still loses clean, What was Corbin not available.?
What is extremely over-looked is that Ziggler pinned fucking AJ Styles. Why Aj Styles. Why did he have to get pinned, he is one of the top guys that should be protected and is heading into probably the second most important match on the card against Cena and he still loses clean, What was Corbin not available.?
Because it's Dolph Ziggler, that's why it had to be AJ Styles. Dolph Ziggler is not credible, if you're going to put him in a title match, he has to beat a guy with credibility. Nobody would believe that Dolph would stand a chance against Ambrose if he pinned Baron Corbin, and to be fair, people still don't, but regardless, if Ziggler was your pick, as bad as it is that he was the choice, he absolutely needed to beat someone of note. The same reason why Finn Balor beat Roman Reigns, because if Finn is going to be facing Seth Rollins for the title after literally just being called up from NXT, pinning Chris Jericho is not gonna cut it.
Storyline wise, AJ loses nothing from the loss. He got completely blind sided by Ziggler, wrong place, wrong time. AJ will beat John Cena in the blow off and then be Dean Ambrose's next opponent, and probably beat Ambrose for the title, and nobody will remember this.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship (Summerslam)
With the brand split, guys like Ziggler, Sheamus, Del Rio and probably Big Show. Will probably have larger roles, then they've had the last few years. They are all former guys seen as main event type guys that kind of got pushed the side. But with two shows and two titles and the talent split. Some of these guys are going to have chances to have big matches again. So consider they already have Orton/Brock and AJ/Cena planned. While they probably didn't want Bray Wyatt jobbing in his first singles PPV match in 10 months. They decided to go with Ziggler, since this title match didn't have to main event the ppv. WWE will hype up that he's 2-time World Champion, 4-time IC Champion and former US champion. Then give him a few big wins to come off as a credible contender.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship (Summerslam)
They kind of have to do this. AJ and Cena are occupied. Bray/Amrbose was done to death and Bray probably can't afford a loss right into his SmackDown tenure. Dolph may have to turn heel for the feud to be interested (hope he does). Ambrose will probably feud with AJ, Cena, Orton along his title path on SmackDown but those are needed to sell PPVs when SummerSlam is already sold on other big main events.
2008 had Triple H/Khali and Punk/JBL as title matches with Cena/Batista and Edge/Taker being the main events. It's probably something similar, though I hope Balor/Rollins gets major billing.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship
I don't really have much of a problem with this. This is obvious filler to pad out Ambrose's title reign and they've proven to have good chemistry with each other. Go check out their match they had last year, the one where both were trying to qualify for the WWE Championship match at SS last year.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship
This is Vince that takes revenge on the fans for having always loved Dean more than Roman.I'm calling it, if next week Dolph isn't destroyed he will win the title.This will be the nail on the coffin of Dean, the nail on the coffin of SD and a huge middle finger to the fans.
This is Vince that takes revenge on the fans for having always loved Dean more than Roman.I'm calling it, if next week Dolph isn't destroyed he will win the title.This will be the nail on the coffin of Dean, the nail on the coffin of SD and a huge middle finger to the fans.
Yeah, Vince McMahon is going to put Dolph Ziggler over the guy that was drafted #1 for SD, booked to pin Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins clean in less than a week, and allowed to take his flagship title to Smackdown. The same way it was going to be the final nail in Ambrose's coffin when he dropped the title after a month at RAW. And then SD. And then Battleground.
Oh wait. :lol
You call for doomsday enough, eventually you'll be correct. If Vince didn't want Ambrose as his champion and wanted to stick it to fans, he would have jobbed him to Seth Sunday and Dean would have never left Washington DC with the belt. He's not putting Dolph of all guys over the man he handed his most prestigious title to. This is a filler feud to pad his reign.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship
Positives of this match:
- Dean is champion
- Dean will likely walk out of Summerslam still champion
- The match will likely be good, I guess?
- DEAN :woo
Negatives:
- WWE shows they don't care about the WWE Championship, Raw gets a new title and all the attention
- Proves Smackdown is the B show still
- Dolph has been the preshow guy for awhile now and lost to Baron Corbin lol, now he's suddenly getting a title shot
- WWE's support of Dean lasted all of about a month
- This will likely only be the third most important match after Lesnar/Orton & Rollins/Balor :no:
Positives of this match:
- Dean is champion
- Dean will likely walk out of Summerslam still champion
- The match will likely be good, I guess?
- DEAN :woo
Negatives:
- WWE shows they don't care about the WWE Championship, Raw gets a new title and all the attention
- Proves Smackdown is the B show still
- Dolph has been the preshow guy for awhile now and lost to Baron Corbin lol, now he's suddenly getting a title shot
- WWE's support of Dean lasted all of about a month
- This will likely only be the third most important match after Lesnar/Orton & Rollins/Balor :no:
Sorry, but it's well down the list. AJ-Cena II is easily bigger and SD's biggest feud then there are still matches for KO, Jericho, Roman and Zayn. Expect those to be bigger than this obvious filler.
Re: Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler - WWE Championship
I Hope Ziggler turns heel, that is the only good that can come from this, but if they keep this a shitty face vs face match that is way down the card then it's complete and utter humiliation for Smackdown
What would you think if Ziggler beat Ambrose at Summerslam?
People can shit on Ziggler but if we are being honest, he is better than Ambrose in pretty much every department, possibly aside from promos. Ambrose is probably a little better but he himself aint really that great. Ziggler could probably overtake him there too if he was given some opportunities to actually speak often and improve.
Ziggler is miles ahead in the ring, and he is way better looking than Ambrose too. I would honestly love it if he was to take the title, even though I know there is zero chance of it happening.
People can shit on Ziggler but if we are being honest, he is better than Ambrose in pretty much every department, possibly aside from promos. Ambrose is probably a little better but he himself aint really that great. Ziggler could probably overtake him there too if he was given some opportunities to actually speak often and improve.
Ziggler is miles ahead in the ring, and he is way better looking than Ambrose too. I would honestly love it if he was to take the title, even though I know there is zero chance of it happening.
You know you dun goofed in picking a #1 contender for the title when this guy thinks Ambrose should retain it.
My biggest bone with Ziggler is he and Swagger have a lot in common, the difference being Ziggler pitched a bitch the entire time, in inferior in the ring, and phoned it in. They two could easily be interchangable with a lot of angles and storylines and matches given to them and have similar accolades under the WWE, only Ziggler has been given more chances and important storylines and he's gotten staler and staler each year. I can pick any Swagger match from Main Event in the past 6 months and it would blow anything Ziggler has done in the past 2 years out of the water. And no, this is not me saying Swagger should be challenging for the WWE title, but just exemplifying how trash Ziggler has become. No passion, no effort, stale performances. I would have preferred Slater, because at least he reflects as someone who cares and puts on a show to the fullest of his capability.
The idea of someone like Ambrose who has quite literally been the most dependable talent of this generation losing to Ziggler is revolting and laughable.
Re: What would you think if Ziggler beat Ambrose at Summerslam?
If Ziggler was anywhere near as good as he used to be i'd say 'Alright, fine' but he's been the blandest of bland guys in the WWE for over a year now. Unless he kicks it up a notch immediately i have no desire to see him be world champ. Good in ring? True. Better than Dean? Maybe. Character wise? Streets behind Ambrose. Again, Dolph hasn't had a good feud in forever, and he's been against guys like Owens and Rusev. Creative isn't great, but he's the common denominator pretty much every time.
If Ziggler was anywhere near as good as he used to be i'd say 'Alright, fine' but he's been the blandest of bland guys in the WWE for over a year now. Unless he kicks it up a notch immediately i have no desire to see him be world champ. Good in ring? True. Better than Dean? Maybe. Character wise? Streets behind Ambrose. Again, Dolph hasn't had a good feud in forever, and he's been against guys like Owens and Rusev. Creative isn't great, but he's the common denominator pretty much every time.
Come on man, theres no maybe about it. Ziggler is one of the premier wrestlers in WWE while Ambrose is one of the worst. Luckily for Ambrose he has other things going for him, which is why he is in the position he is in.
Re: What would you think if Ziggler beat Ambrose at Summerslam?
Ziggler is my favorite wrestler, and he's been tossed aside so many times throughout his career even though on a few occasions he's been absolutely deserving of a nice run. I would be ecstatic if he won the championship, even if it lasted one week.
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